I resisted for so many years… – The HARDENED LIFE Co.

I made a promise to my father that I was going to make the most of the remaining years of my life, I’m just bummed that he won’t be here physically to celebrate my accomplishments.

One of the things I always wanted to do over the past two decades is to really get serious about my body composition and get it down to 6-7%. I’ve yet to accomplish that because I focused on the wrong things. Thanks to social media, I bought into the idea that techniques such as fasting, exclusion diets, and high intensity exercise were going to do the trick, but they didn’t. At least, not for me.

Many influencers are convincing folks that counting calories isn’t necessary or that it’s too difficult, only to solicit whatever ‘system’ or ground breaking technique they’re trying to sell. But if you look at what every individual participating in a weight or body composition related endeavor where being overweight by 1 pound or having 1% more bodyfat can mean the difference of earning a paycheck or not (bodybuilding, boxing, wrestling, mma, etc.), they’re all counting calories and weighing their food BECAUSE IT WORKS.

I think it’s important to mention that my perception of ‘counting calories’ also includes intentional selection of the most nutrient dense foods available and targeting specific macronutrients (fat, protein, carbohydrates).

I will be utilizing a food journal and employing the high fat, moderate protein, and low carb diet. Specifically, it’s the 70-20-10 diet where 70% of ingested calories is FAT, 20% is protein, and 10% or less is carbohydrates. Being in ketosis is not necessarily my target but I anticipate being in ketosis most of the time. I think I mentioned it on a prior post, but my caloric target was calculated by a calculator on the following website:

https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html

Based on my age, gender, height, and weight, my target for mild weight loss is 2,225 calories. Using the 70-20-10 calculations, my daily macro targets are 173g of fat, 112g of protein, and 56g carbs. I’m pumped. Watch and enjoy the progress.

Dave